031 Former CBI Joint Director Shri V.V. Lakshmi Narayana may join TDP or BJP depending upon 5 State Assembly Election Results

Trigger for writing this particular Blog post is, Open Heart Interview given in Telugu Language, given by Shri V.V. Lakshmi Narayana,Former Joint Director, CBI, to Shri V. Radhakrishna, Chief Editor of Andhrajyothy. Link to the OpenHeart Interview, for those who wish to study it: Click here to go to http://www.andhrajyothy.com/pages/openheartarticle?SID=663243. I have already covered this subject matter elaborately in Musings posted by me at Click here if you wish to read it in depth. In my blogpost, I referred to the fondness of Shri Lakshminarayana to Swami Vivekananda, and RSS. I have also compared his fondness for Swami Vivekananda to a similar fondness shown by Shri Narendra Modi 2014-18 Prime Minister of India. I have also expressed my personal feeling (which I did/do not intend to impose on others) that both Shri Lakshmi Narayana and Shri Narendra Modi might not have read the Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda.

We shall see one or two Answers from the Interview:--

Shri Lakshmi Narayana's view	ybrao-a-donkey's view
ఆర్కే: మీ లక్ష్యం ఏమిటి? లక్ష్మీనారాయణ: సావర్కర్‌ గురించి చెబుతుంటా.. మనం పుడతాం. ఈ దేహాన్ని సంతరించుకుంటాం. చనిపోయినప్పుడు దేవుడి దగ్గరికెళ్లామంటారు. ఈ దేహం దేవుడి దగ్గరకు వెళ్లిపోవడానికి మధ్య దేశం ఉంటుంది. కాబట్టి ఆ దేశాన్ని గురించి ఏమైనా ఆలోచించమనేది ఆయన మాటలు. దానికి చాలా ప్రభావితమయ్యాను. కలాం గారితో ఉన్న పరిచయం ప్రభావం కూడా ఉంది. మనం కూడా వెళ్లిపోయేముందు గుర్తుండేలా ఏమైనా చేయగలమా అన్నది ఒక సంకల్పం. Approx. English equivalent: RK (Editor): What is your aim/goal? Shri Lakshmi Narayana: I tell about Savarkar. We get born. We acquire this body. When we die, people say that we have gone to God. Before this body goes to God, there is Country. His words ask to think about that Country. I am inspired by it, a lot. There is also the influence of my acquaintance with Shri Kalam. One intent is to do something which will be remember-able (after our death) before we pass away.	This particular quote of Shri V.D. Savarkar is very noble. But, a comparison of the views of Bhagat Singh and Savarkar indicate that Savarkar might not have lived as per his own words. The following excerpts from https://thewire.in/history/bhagat-singh-and-savarkar-a-tale-of-two-petitions Sent to the notorious Cellular Jail in the Andamans in 1911 for his revolutionary activity, Savarkar first petitioned the British for early release within months of beginning his 50 year sentence. Then again in 1913 and several times till he was finally transferred to a mainland prison in 1921 before his final release in 1924. The burden of his petitions: let me go and I will give up the fight for independence and be loyal to the colonial government. Savarkar’s defenders insist his promises were a tactical ploy; but his critics say they were not, and that he stayed true to his promise after leaving the Andamans by staying away from the freedom struggle and actually helping the British with his divisive theory of ‘Hindutva’, which was another form of the Muslim League’s Two Nation theory.
బీజేపీ నేత మాధవ్‌: పదవీ విరమణ చేసి మీరు సామాజిక, రాజకీయ రంగంలోకి రావాలని నిర్ణయించడం చాలా సంతోషం. మా పార్టీలోకి రావాలని ఆహ్వానిస్తున్నాం. మాధవ్‌గారు నాకు పరిచయం. గుడిలోవలోని స్కూల్‌లో వీళ్లంతా విద్యార్థులు. వీరంతా కలిసి వాళ్ల టీచర్లకు క్వార్టర్స్‌ కట్టించారు. వాటి ప్రారంభోత్సవానికి నేను వెళ్లాను. ఆ విధంగా నాకు మాధవ్‌గారు పరిచయం. Approx. English: BJP Leader Madhav: Very happy that you have chosen to retire, and decidedd to enter into social and political fields. We are inviting you into our party. Shri Madhav is known to me. All these are students in Gudilova school. All these (students) built quarters for their teachers. I went for their inauguration. In that way, I know Shri Madhav.	Now, that the Invitation to join BJP is clear, and inasmuch as the ideological thinking of BJP and Shri Lakshmi Narayana tally, any logical person may expect Shri Lakshmi Narayana to join BJP. On 27th March 2018, in my above blog post, I anticipated it. In my earlier blog posts also at the problemsoftelugus.blogspot.com, I was predicting this. But there seem to be some difficulties: 1. Shri Lakshmi Narayana wants to become an Agriculture/Rural Development Minister. If this expectation is to become a State Level Agriculture Minister, the prospects of BJP and Shri Lakshmi Narayana getting elected to State Assemblies are very bleak. For that he has to join TDP (ysrcp ruled out because while he was in CBI, he investigated cases against Shri Y.S. Jaganmohan Reddy, with missionary zeal.). Alternatively, he has to become a Central Agricultural Minister. For that, Mr. Narendra Modi and BJP have to win 2019 Lok Sabha Elections, which may not be easy as per present Surveys. The position has to change by May 2019. Right now, Mr. Lakshmi Narayana can wait for the Results of Assembly Elections in Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh, Chattisgadh which will decide the future of BJP and Shri Narendra Modi.

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025 Indians are capable of prostrating and pulling down

025 Indians are capable of prostrating and pulling down
Topics for discussion: BJP, Political Culture, Venkaiah Naidu, Narendra Modi, L.K. Advani, M.M. Joshi, Politics of Prostration

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Mr. M. Venkaiah Naidu, Minister for Urban Development and Parliamentary Affairs is reported to have said:

I do not like people prostrating before us.

I never used to prostrate in front of seniors like Advani and Vajpayee though they gave me political birth.

Many are prostrating in front of me after I became Union Minister. I will be careful with them. ... Many pretend to prostrate and suddenly pull a person as happened in case of then CM NTR. ,,,

Mr. Venkaiah Naidu is said to have recollected how four to five people mostly women prostrated to NTR and when he asked, NTR remarked it was their love and affection. Mr. Naidu is said to have proceeded to explain how Nadendla Bhaskara Rao pulled down NTR later.

ybrao a donkey's comments

It is not poor people who may pull down the persons before whom they prostrate.

It is politicians, who prostrate and also pull down. Pulling down is their nature, whether they prostrate or not.

Now see this picture, Like mythological Suyodhana Mr. Narendra Modi is prostrating before Mr. L.K. Advani, the Bhishmacharya of BJP.

In the right side photo Mr. Modi was prostrating before Advani. In the left side photo he was bending forward to seek blessing of Mr. Murali Manohar Joshi.

Now, what is happening to the Gurus and deliverers? How could Mr. Modi suddenly bring a bench mark of maximum age of 75 years for being taken into Cabinet? Mr. Modi has the audacity to take into his Cabinet Ms. Smriti Irani who has not completed her XII Standard or Part I of her Correspondence Course and entrust her the administration of Human Resource Development of 1200 million Indian Citizens, supervising IITs, IIMs, UGC, AICTE, Public and Private Sector Universities and what not!! Mr. Joshi was a Physics Professor and was a stalvart in many Educational Commissions and Committees, besides being a Senior HRD Minister in Vajpayee's Cabinet. Mr. Advani needed no introduction.

Actually, it seems to be the fault of Mr. Vajpayee, Mr. Advani and Mr. Murali Manohar Joshi to have encouraged Mr. Narendra Modi, by exporting him from Delhi to Ahmedabad as Chief Minister in 2002.

The trinity sowed the wind and reaped the whirlwind. They deserve their downfall.

Mr. Venkaiah Naidu might not have prostrated before Mr. Vajpayee or Mr. Advani. But one thing is definite. Mr. Venkaiah Naidu, Mr. Rajnath Singh, Mr. Arun Jaitley, Ms. Sushma Swaraj played their AshADha bhUti roles in letting down Mr. Advani and Mr. M.M. Joshi. Now, Mr. Advani and Joshi must have been repenting for encouraging flunkeys like Messrs. Naidu, Rajnath, Jaitley, and Swaraj.

What will happen to Indian Parliament after prostration?

This photo shows, Mr. Narendra Modi prostrating before the entrance of Indian Parliament.
We have to wait and see what he is going to do to the Indian Parliament, having prostrated before it.

023 Modi wave or BJP wave or anti Congress wave?

23 Modi wave or BJP wave or anti Congress wave?
topics for discussion: BJP, Murali Manohar Joshi, Narendra Modi, Advani, Adani, Rahul Gandhi, Modism

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"Modi is the representative of the party as the prime ministerial candidate. And whenever a dynamic person moves with the support of the party, he creates a very strong sympathy and support for him, because of his track record also. So its not a highly personalized thing, it is a representative wave. He gets support from different parts of the country, from different sections of society, and from all leaders of BJP. So, he represents the general mood and the desire for change. You may call it a Modi wave, there is no harm in it. But it is a sum total of what is happening inside the country, it represents that,"




It is now the developmental model of the country as presented by BJP. In a country like India, what developmental model is true for Jammu and Kashmir or Arunachal Pradesh, may not be true for Kerala.



"So to say that this model or that model -- no. So some good points may be there, some good points from the government of Tripura will also be there, it is not some straitjacket model,"

ybrao a donkey's feelings

We should, first, appreciate the courage shown by Mr. Murali Manohar Joshi, amidst all-pervasive Modimania. I hope he will persevere with it.

This type of courage Mr. Advani couldn't show.

But it will be better to call the waves roaring today, as 'anti-congress waves', rather than Modi waves or BJP waves.

There is no wonder or speciality in BJP winning in Gujarat, Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh, Chattisgadh and Delhi, because they were and are BJP ruled states even before the advent of Modism on the BJP's horizon.

We can prove that there is a BJP wave or a Modi wave, only when BJP secures victories in Non-BJP ruled States like Andhra Pradesh or Tamil Nadu.

In the mean time we can compare the publicity, marketing blitzkriez, paid-news we see in print and electronic media, only to the market promotion campaigns of film distributors.

Reasons for widespread anti-congress wave, are well-known:

1. anti-incumbancy factor.

2. sky-rocketing prices

3. hardships suffered by people owing to unilateral enforcement of Adhar scheme.

4. great scams and corruption.

5. displacement of farmers from their ancestral lands for setting up SEZs and parks.

6. suicide of farmers, as farming turned into an unviable high-risk commercial venture, resulting in debt and harassment from money-lenders.

7. suicide of small traders as small-scale trading could not compete with malls and super markets, bolstered by foreign investments and Chinese goods.

8. Conversion of education and health care into Corporate businesses, turning them inaccessible to common people.

9. Widespread unemployment both of unskilled labor and educated youth, as agriculture, agro-based industries and manufacturing sectors turned sick.

10. Excess emphasis on speculation in gold, shares, bonds, real estate, resulting in creation of nouveau-riche in the midst of deprivation and squalor.

Common man's dilemma is, whom to vote, to reflect their anger towards Congress? Though Mr. Modi is projected as a solution, his economic agenda does not differ from the economic agenda of Congress.


Example: Mr. Narendra Modi patronised the Adani Group. Congress too wanted to patronise the same Adani Group. When Rahul Gandhi pointed out Modi's fetish for Adani saying 'Advani out and Adani in', photos showing Adani and Vadhra discussing something, went viral on internet.

As far as crony Capitalism is concerned, no party can be immune in India, including AAP and Communists.

Mr. L.K. Advani's about turns

“This is the first ever election where it can be felt that people have already made up their minds to throw out the present (UPA) government. There is no doubt that BJP will form government under the leadership of Narendra Modi. I will take up any role which will be offered to me after election,”

Feelings of ybrao a donkey

We should not forget that SrIvAru has retweated a tweat which compared Mr. Modi to a snake.

Now, how Mr. Advani takes an about-turn? Because Mr. Modi fell down on his feet?

What responsibilities does Shri Advani want to shoulder in Mr. Modi's regime? Does he want to be anointed as President of India? Then, he has to wait another four years. Will he be satisfied if Lok Sabha's speakership is offered?
Or does he wants restoration of his Dy. Prime Ministership, with charge of Home Ministry? This may not be possible, because it might have been reserved for Mr. Amit Shah.







The election canvassing work of Mr. Advani in his Gandhinagar constituency used to be, earlier entrusted to his daughter. This time, Shri Advani has entrusted it to his son. One question which occurs to my mind is, why didn't he entrust this work to a second string leader in Gandhinagar? Why always close relatives and family members? Probably, it involves handling of cash.

Probably, because Mr. Advani might have thought that time for him is going to be up by 2019 when he may not be given even a ticket at Gandhinagar, and that it would be better to pass on the mantle to son, as customary in Indian politics. Mr. Advani might have entrusted his son's future to the gloves of Mr. Modi. Second string leaders in India can never get a chance, unless they start manoeuvering for themselves a la Mr. Modi.

22 Marital affairs and Illicit Relationships of Indian politicians

Topics for discussion, चर्चांश: Narendra Modi, Arun Jaitley, Rahul Gandhi, Congress, BJP, Andhra Pradesh.

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Mr. Arun Jaitley, BJP Vice President was reported to have said on 12th April 2014.

"I do not understand how disclosing a legal relationship is wrong in any way. Narendra Modi has done the right thing the right way. There are many people in illicit relationships in Rahul Gandhi's party. If people have the right to know this, then, they also have the right to know things which are not yet disclosed..."

ybrao a donkey's feelings

Disclosing a legal relationship is not wrong in any way. The question is why it was not disclosed in the previous elections. It is true, that as pointed out by Mr. Jaitley, Mr. Narendra Modi has now done it in the right thing. But, still, it is not fully in the right way. Truth should be disclosed in full in an honest manner, and not like Yudhishthira of Mahabharata who said 'aswaththama hataha kunjaraha' (AswaththAma was dead, the elephant).

The object of the Election procedure requiring candidates to disclose their spouses names and asking for the details of properties held in their names seems to be that corrupt politicians should not accumulate properties in spouse names.

In February 2014 Mr. Modi said at Sujanpur:

"Mere liye na koi aagey, na peechhey. Kiske liye bhrashtachaar karunga? (I've no familial ties. Who would I ever try to benefit through corruption?)."

May be he might have unofficially, unilaterally, in his mind, he broke his ties with Ms. Jashoda Ben, whereas Ms. Jashoda Ben still says that she is his dharma patni, like legendary Sita who was abandoned in the forest. He did not apply for his divorce through Indian courts, as per Hindu Marriage Act and customs under which he was married. According to Hindu traditions, and Indian laws, a husband has to bear his wife (bharta = one who bears. bhArya= one who is borne), unless and until he gets a legal divorce. Simply dropping wife at her parents' does not discharge his responsibilities.

By withholding essential, material facts, Mr. Modi has withheld information needed by the election process. The Returning Officers at that time acquiesced to the non-disclosure and blindly validated his nomination.

Even in the 2014 Vadodara affidavit, Mr. Modi, ought to have included an additional explanation for not providing the details of assets and liabilities of Ms. Jashoda Ben.

Example:
I and my spouse have been living separately for the last 45 years. She has her own sources of income. She has her own assets purchased from her income. I am unable to provide those details, because we live separately and do not have contacts.

What is missing here, is the required transparency. Once transparency is maintained, criticism from other parties and people may arise: How can a person who cannot look after his wife, can empower the women of the whole Nation? But this question is to be handled separately, outside the election nomination affidavit.

About illicit relationships of politicians

Unfortunately, the election procedures and the affidavits to be submitted are silent about persons in illicit relationships with the leaders, and the assets they own. Assets held by such illicit partners (we can't call them wives/husbands. Use of the word concubin will be harsh) can also be sizeable. Probably, election rules may have to be amended, seeking additional information on assets and liabilities of persons having illicit relationships with politicians.

Mr. Narendra Modi and some BJP leaders were vociferous about the assets of Ms. Sunanda Pushkar (Tharoor) before and after her marriage with Mr. Sashi Tharoor. Mr. Modi referred to her as "Rs. 50 crore girl friend". Mr. Narendra Modi himself did not hesitate to raise personal issues. Where did the political ethics pointed out by Mr. Jaitley go?

Discussion in Andhra Pradesh State Assembly

As far as I could remember, there was once a discussion in erstwhile United A.P. State Assembly about the extra marital relationships of M.L.A.s. It transpired that nearly 70-80% of A.P. M.L.A. had relationships of some type or other. I also recall that Mr. Suresh Reddy, the then appointed a House Committee to inquire into facts. The Committee went to dogs.

A.P., though we cannot generalise, still can be taken as a representative sample of India. At least 50% of M.L.A.s of other States, and Indian M.Ps may have this type of relationships. Four issues arise from these relationships:

1. Whether corrupt moneys are diverted to buy assets to illicit wives/husbands.

2. Whether the illicit wives/husbands interfere into the working of the M.L.A.s, M.Ps and Ministers? .

3. If the M.L.As, M.P.s and Ministers stay at the houses of their live-in illicit partners, how far the first wives are neglected?

4. Do prior wives remain silent out of fear, or out of hope to get property shares of the politicians from their corrupt wealth. If the prior wives take divorce, they will only get some maintenance. By remaining mum, they will get property shares, even if they lose husband's cohabitation and love.

Mr. Jaitley was reported to have commented:--

"There is the political ethics that women and personal life of people are never brought in politics. It has never been made an issue in our country. Because the Congress party is on the verge of defeat and it has no other topic to bring up, it has taken up the marital status of Narendra Modi as an issue."

ybrao a donkey's feelings

Ethics in this country requires rulers to set exemplary standards to the common people they rule.

Bhagavad Gita 03/21. Whatever elite and leaders in society do others will emulate. Whatever the elite take as standard, the world will copy. ——↠↠ yad yad Acharati SrEshThas tat tad dEvEtarO janah sa yat pramANam kurutE lOkas tad anuvartatE.

If a ruler neglects his wife, leaving her to fend for herself, howsoever noble may be his reason for doing that, what will the common people do?

Why political ethics in India ignores personal behaviors? It is very inconceivable to expect that a person who is unethical in his personal life, will be ethical in his political life. Personal life and political life go hand in hand, and are inseparable. However, politicians can have complete rights to justify their behaviors and even right to privacy, as long as they do not pontificate and harangue to common people on the same affairs and subjects.

There is a story about Gandhiji. A parent went to Gandhiji with his son and requested Gandhiji to counsel the boy suitably and persuade him not to eat laddus. Gandhiji went on postponing his advice, until one day he conceded and counselled the boy suitably. The surprised parent was said to have asked Gandhiji, why this couldn't have been done during the first visit itself. Gandhiji said that he too had a fetish for laddus, and that he could not advise the boy to restrain from eating laddus, until he himself stopped consuming them. The postponement was time needed for Gandhiji to resist his own temptations.

Mr. Jaitley was reported to have commented:

"He has stooped down low by bringing up the marital status of Modi. So, if Rahul Gandhi has stooped down so low, then he should tell about his own party leaders."

ybrao a donkey's comments

If Rahul Gandhi has anything to disclose about himself, he ought to disclose. He will then be setting a great example. He can also advise his followers to be transparent.

21 Modi's self-confidence

21 Modi's self-confidence

Discussion Menu: Narendra Modi, Arun Kejriwal, Varanasi, Kasi, Vadodara, Baroda, Lok Sabha

Mr. Narendra Modi (namo) apparently lacks self-confidence.

Proof: Contesting from two Lok Sabha constituencies, VAraNAsi (kASi) and VadodAra (BarODa).


Mr. Modi has already driven out the octogenarian 1991 President, Physics Professor, Mr. Murali Manohar Joshi from VaraNasi. I pity Mr. Joshi. I compare him to Legendary Sage Agastya who was banished from Varanasi to southwards, beyond Vindhyas.


vArANasi is a great Hindu pilgrimage Centre and place of Hindu renaissance, full of sAdhus who have votes. Thus, Mr. Modi is assured of success in Varanasi. There should not have been any need for him to contest from any other Constituency, unless he is unsure of his victory. In political chronological seniority, Mr. Aravind Kejriwal is a bachcha before him. There, should not have, hence been no need for Mr. Modi to feel an uncertainity or risk, except in case of a 10% unforeseen change in the wicket and pitch.


Now, Mr. Modi contesting from Vadodara indicates that he is unsure of Varanasi. But, suppose if Mr. Narendra wins in both the Constituencies. He will have to choose one. Whom will he choose? Either way, it will be injustince to one Constituency. There will, unnecessarily be a bye-election adding avoidable costs to exchequer.

This also shows that Mr. Narendra Modi lacks a spirit of his commitment to his own party colleagues.

Proof: Suppose he contests only from one constituency. Pray not, but let us suppose that he loses it, but his BJP Party secures the magic number 272+. He can chose the Rajya Sabha route a la Mr. Manmohan Singh and become Prime Minister. Or he can allow his own colleagues like Mr. Rajnath Singh, Ms. Sushma Swaraj, Mr. Lal Krishna Advani, Mr. Murali Manohar Joshi or any other Senior BJP leader to become Prime Minister. But selfish Mr. Modi will not like allow it.


Arun Kejriwal seems more courageous. He is contesting from only one Constituency. He is taking a risk of facing a bull like Mr. Narendra Modi. Suppose he loses, and AAP wins sufficient seats to form a coalition Government, he can always take a Rajya Sabha route, or even he can allow his colleagues Mr. Sisodia, Mr. Prashant Bhushan, Mr. Yogendra Yadav or any other leader to become PM.